Faculty

Prof. Bing Li

is an Assistant Professor of Automotive Engineering at Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) since Aug. 2018. He founded and directs the AutoAI Lab research group. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2018 from The City College (CCNY), at The City University of New York (CUNY). Email: bli4 AT clemson.edu, (Profile Page and Google Scholar.)

Ph.D.
Students

Abhishek Sharma

(2022~) Research focus: Embodied AI, Autonomous Mapping-Navigation, etc.
Email: asharm5 AT clemson.edu (Profile Page)

Cigdem Kokenoz

(2022~) Research focus: Spatial-AI Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for Autonomous Robots/Vehicles, etc.
Email: ckokeno AT clemson.edu (Profile Page)

Nobel Dang

(2023~) Research focus: Autonomous AI.
Email: ndang AT clemson.edu (Profile Page)

Zhimin Chen

(2020~) Multi-modal Data-efficient Learning for 3D Machine Vision.
Email: zhiminc AT clemson.edu (Profile Page)

Research Interns

Geeta Koduri

is currently a Master’s student in Automotive Engineering at CU-ICAR.
Email: gkoduri AT g.clemson.edu

Nia Alavandi

is currently a high school student at JL Mann High School, Greenville, SC.
Email: nia.alava AT gmail.com

Alumni

Aaron Chen

2022~2023 MS Graduate, then Michelin Group

Akshay Bhagat

2018~2019 MS Graduate, then Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, Inc. - Planning and Controls Engineer (Autonomous Driving/ADAS)

Akshay Desai

2018~2019 MS Graduate, then Magna International - Algorithm Engineer – Planning and Controls.

Amogh Venkataramana Reddy

2022~2023 MS Graduate, then PhD student at Clemson University.
MS Thesis: Virtual Prototyping and Validation for Autonomous Assistive Mobility.

Aryan Naveen

2019~2022 Intern, then Undergraduate Computer Science Program at Harvard University.

Dr. Howard Brand

2017~2022: Ph.D. graduate. Dissertation: Non-destructive Terrain Evaluation and Modeling for Off-Road Autonomy. (Profile Page)

Dr. Jesse Leaman

2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
He received his Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include AI for Astrophysics, Robotic Astronomy, Robotic Wheelchairs and Assistive Mobility, Human-Robot Interaction, Human-centered AI, AI for Climate.

Dr. Ziyue Feng

2019~2024: Ph.D. graduate. Dissertation: Advancing Visual Geometric Perception: Camera-based Depth, Reconstruction, and Active Vision. (Profile Page)

Mingzhe Liu

2021 MS Graduate, then Ph.D. student at Arizona State University.

Minni Bin

2020~2021 MS Graduate, then Toyota North America R&D - ADAS Evaluation Engineer.

Nachiappan Chockalingam

2019 Intern, then Amazon AWS - Software Engineer.

Rahil Modi

2020~2021 MS Graduate, then Volvo - Vehicle System Engineer in the Automated Driving.

Sanket Bachuwa

2018~2019 MS Graduate, then ThorDrive - Autonomous Driving Engineer.

Shaurya Panthri

2019~2020 MS Graduate, then Toyota North America R&D - Automated Driving Software Engineer.

Srivatsav Kamarajugadda

2018~2019 MS Graduate, then NVIDIA - Senior Planning and Controls Engineer.

Tarun Giridhar

2020~2021 Intern, then Undergraduate Computer Science Program at Virginia Tech.

Toukheer Shaik

2022~2023 MS Graduate, then GKN Automotive, Inc. - Controls and Software.

Zack Yang

2020~2022 MS Graduate, then Lucid Motors - Software Engineer (Autonomous Driving/ADAS)